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 ne t aftar whi'tson halydays of ye c loke/"

twen 4 & 5

202 NOTES- AND QUERIES. [9* s. vm. SEPT. 7, 1901.

meaning that caoba was the Haytian for Swietenia Mahagoni. Von Martius, in copy- ing this list for the second volume of his well- known 'Beitrage zur Ethnographie und, ^^ ^ of London/ ed. Strype) Sprachenkunde America s Leipzig, 1867, book {{ 135? in re f er ring to the made a singular blunder He misread this > . however, a somewhat different entry as "Swietenia, mahagom caoba, and - J j * follows :

so chronicled*^ erected in the Yeere

goni and caoba) for Swietenia (p. 318). My im Ln ^ [ hig order) * Certaine Houses upon idea is that, either directly or indirectly, this Q^^m, and the like upon the backe thereof, in error is at the bottom of the statement quoted the Ward of Broadstreet, with three Alleys; the by Prof Skeat. If I am right, the history of first called Swan Alley, opening into Cornehill; the this term remains what it was, a mystery. ' ^ M A11 " v '" t.hnrow out of

JAS. PLATT, Jun., -~ ~ Bartholomew Lane; the third, S.' Christo-

BARRAS. I have been asked whether any phers Alley, opening into Broadstreet Ward and

1 into Saint Christopher's parish, containing in all ^e [" 60 " above] Housholds; were first pur-

., , i cnaseu by the Citizens of London for more than

moor Forest, in Westmoreland, 1,378 teet 3532 Pounds [Marginal note: " It was above 4,000/. above the sea. I can find nothing in any of as the Maior and Aldermen did set forth in their the books, and, no ancient form being known, Answer to the Lady Greshams Supplication. nothing can be said with certainty; but I J. S."] and were sold for 478 Pounds, to such Persons imagine that the first syllable may be the a. S i T J

Jtt^lllO ^uiJO-i; o i* A Q I Z, A1SO the IjrrOUIlU Or riUb Wits lliauB piennc a,u uiio

same as in Barrow, which is from A.-b. beorh, Charges of the Citi e 5 and then Possession thereof a hill, while the second is doubtless from A.-b. was by certaine Aldermen (in the name of the whole wdse, a swamp or wash, whence we have Citizens) given to Sir Thomas Gresham, Kt. Agent similar English names, such as Hopewas, to the Queens Highnesse, thereupon to build a near Tamworth, anciently Hop****, ^ *^^

swamp in the valley; Alrewas, anciently laying the iGrst Stone of the Foundation, Alrewasse, the alder swamp; and Buildwas beeing Bricke, accompanied with some Aldermen, in Salop. 1 shall be glad to know if this every of them laid a piece of Gold, which the explanation suits the local conditions of the Workmen tooke up, and forthwith followed upon other places of the same name, as well as the same with such diligence, that by the Moneth

1 of November, in the yeere 1567, the same was covered with Slate, and shortly after fully finished."

W. I. E. V.

PARTRIDGE LORE. The writings of Charles Hulbert, who was born at Manchester in 1778,

15ARRAS. i nave ueeii asiveu wueunot CLUJ JJUOIQ -n.no.y, U^JIUB * ^^^ explanation is known of the name of Barras. into ^*^*?P^ B H ^" h ^ I a P m told it is the name of a place in Stain- * 1 1 ^Wndo,!

that in Westmoreland.

ISAAC TAYLOR.

THE FIRST ROYAL EXCHANGE. During last autumn, when making some researches on another subject in the Archiepiscopal Library

T IT i i i i j i / -i J.J LI i ' 'r;i u. WHV-/W cuo KJ\JL IJL cuu XTJ.CLII viiv^o U\JL m j. w<

at Lambeth, I chanced to meet with the fol- contain much curioua and out-of-the-way

lowing curious contemporary entry (appa- rently in the autograph of John Stow, the antiquary) at fo. 57 of a MS. there, of a mis- cellaneous character, numbered 306; and thinking that the same would prove interest- ing to many, I transcribed it for insertion in ' N. & Q.' :-

"1565.

" The xxij day of February [1565/6] beynge friday, the howsys nere to y cunduite in cornhylle about y nombar of Ix. howsholds poore & ryche, we' f = were] cryed by the bell man, a bowte y citie of

matter. The following passage relates to a superstitious feeling as to partridges :

"In the year 1811, when O'c] the editor of this work resided in Coleham, a suburb of Shrewsbury, and equally populous with the town itself. One evening, in the latter end of that year, John Jenkins (a neighbour and tenant) brought him a fine partridge alive, which he said had flown into his house and taken shelter under a chest of drawers; he had caught it, and begged his landlord's acceptance of it : at the same time Jenkins remarked he was very much alarmed by the circumstance, as he had

london to be solde to them that wowld gyve moaste heard his parents relate that a partridge found its

for them, & remeve the same from thens, that '

y l place y e marchannts niowght [ic = might] btr,^.

theyr bursse thos howsys were dvverse tymes so. __.,.

cryed <fe at y last solde & they begane to pull dowe the fears of the poor fellow by representing to him

1 the absurdity of his apprehensions, it being im- possible that such circumstances should have any connexion with or influence on each other. The

way in a similar manner into their dwelling, and buyld | that shortly after a brother of his came to an untimely end. The editor endeavoured to calm

l y e same shortly aftar owr lady day [=25 March] in lent, in y pullynge downe wherof dvverse persons were sore hurt & ij in great peryll

y " l_jV -t * ^ " v ' c * I'^i y H I VJV^IlllC A.IUL1 W I L'l I Ul IIJIIIICIIUC \JII CClUll WU11O1 -1- IAV/

of deathe, and by whitsontyd [=2 June] next follow- bird was accepted; and in order to fame and to ingein 1566 y e same howses were all pullyd downe preserve it alive it was turned into a large corn & y e grownd clearyd all whiche chargis was borne warehouse, then part of the cotton manufactory, by y citizens of london/ & then possessyon gyven where it remained for nearly a month, when one by sertayn aldarmen to syr Thomas gressham who | evening it burst through a glass window, breaking